Bowlby was a careful observer. His entire volume on Loss spoke to the power of early childhood adversity and later life. More recently, a pediatric nephrologist at Kaiser in collaboration with others has shown that early childhood adversities, including loss, results in later adulthood medical ailments (Filetti et al); and Szajnberg and Massie followed Brodie’s cohort at thirty years to demonstrate this clinically.

Yet, Preter and Klein, citing the work of others, have shown pharmacological evidence of what appears to be a lifelong disorder in opiodergic systems due to childhood loss.

Here is the careful study:

Click Here to Read: Lifelong opioidergic vulnerability through early life separation: A recent extension of the false suffocation alarm theory of panic disorder. by Maurice Preter MD and Donald F. Klein, MD, DSc: on the Reseach Gate Website on April 16, 2014.

Click Here to To Read: Daddy’s Girl? Rebecca Coffey on Sigmund Freud’s daughter Review of Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story by Rebecca Coffey, Reviewed By Joan Lipkin on the Windy City Media Group website on August 28, 2014.

Welcome back from vacation, everyone, and Happy Labor Day! Given what has been happening to labor lately, there’s too much to say about that here, so it will have to be left to the editorial pages. Meanwhile, here is our September poet, Eugene Mahon. Read the rest of this post »

YIVO Executive Director Jonathan Brent will be speaking at several programs at Let’s Never Forget: The Night and Hope of Arnost Lustig, on September 6, 2014 in Auburn, California. For more about this event, click here.

The Friends of the A.A. Brill Library
of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

We trust you have thoroughly enjoyed your summer and made it through your reading list. NYPSI’s Brill Library is now open for the 2014 – 2015 academic year and we invite you to attend the first film of our Film Series!

Click Here to Read: Meet the mother and father of cognitive neuroscience: Independently and almost single-handedly, husband and wife Uta and Chris Frith have transformed the way we view autism and schizophrenia on the by Mo Costandi on Guardian website on Mo Costandi’s Neurophilosophy blog.

Uta and Chris Frith at their home in northwest London. Photograph: Mo Costandi

Celebrating 40 Years of Excellence In Psychoanalytic Scholarship and Service
LOOKING FOR HIGH-QUALITY, LOW-COST COUPLES TREATMENT?

The Psychotherapy Service of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy is now accepting referrals of couples!

WCSPP has a 40-year reputation for quality training in psychoanalysis and related disciplines, and the unsurpassed level of service that our affiliated clinicians provide to their communities. Read the rest of this post »

Click Here to Read and View: A New Yorker Faces His Phobia, One Stroke at a Time With Intensive Swim Lessons, a Man Attacks His Fear of Water By N. R. Kleinfield in The New York Times on August 29, 2014.

Rep. Bella Abzug, center, and Gloria Steinem, right, at a demonstration staged by the Reproductive Rights Committee of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women in 1976. (Bernard Gotfryd/Getty Images)

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